Renew your Single Engine Piston/Power Class Rating at E-Flight Academy.
Who is it for?
Do you have a LAPL or higher? Or are you a commercial pilot but your SEP rating is no longer current? Then do the Single Engine Piston Renewal training with us. You'll do the training on our Pipistrel Virus piston engine, the Bristell B23, or the fully electric Pipistrel Velis.
Note! It's difficult to say how many lessons are needed to bring your level up to the exam flight standard. The mentioned numbers are the minimum. The prices listed are only for the flying portion. Theory lessons will be invoiced separately. The best approach is to first contact us to estimate how this training would look in your specific situation.
Practice
- At least 2 flying lessons of 1 hour on the Pipistrel 121 SW Virus or the Bristell B23, or 3 flying lessons of 45 minutes on the Pipistrel 128 Velis.
- Landings on post-calculation
- 1 hour aircraft rental (1 flight Virus or possibly 2 flights Velis) for the exam flight (if longer is needed, this will be on a post-calculation basis)
- Need more lessons? Then you'll pay per extra lesson on a post-calculation basis.
Theory
During the practical training, some theory will also be provided. Count on 8 hours of theory with the instructor and 8 hours of home study. During the exam, theoretical knowledge will be verbally tested by the examiner.
Good to know
- A single engine class rating can be obtained on an electric or fuel model. If you want to fly on both variants, we recommend first obtaining a SEP class rating on the fuel model and then doing the E-conversion to our electric model. No exam is needed for the E-conversion. If you choose to obtain the SEP class rating on an electric aircraft, you may not simply fly with a fuel model afterwards, and vice versa.
- For a SEP class rating, you already need a valid LAPL or PPL. A higher license like CPL or ATPL is also acceptable.
- For LAPL holders, in addition to the 'dual' SEP practical training, 10 solo starts and landings must also be made under instructor supervision. A flight of one and a half hours is planned for this (Virus) or two flights of 45 minutes (Velis). Let us know when this is the case.
- You must have a medical certificate of at least class 2.
- The examiner and exam costs are not included in the price (count on €250 for an examiner). Landing fees during the exam are also not included and will be invoiced after the exam.
- The above practical program is the minimum number of hours. Depending on the individual, more training may be needed.
- If you are allowed to fly both piston and electric after the training, you must maintain the validity for both. Unfortunately, there is no 'cross-crediting' in the legislation.
- If you have ever been in possession of a SEP but let it expire and want to make it valid again, contact us for more information. This also applies if you need to make a training flight for 'revalidation'. Often a modified syllabus is possible.
- You are responsible for requesting the license modification from KIWA. We will help you get started.
Schedule date and time
You can directly reserve the slots by selecting "choose date and time" on this page. If you don't know the dates/times yet, that's no problem, we'll send you the information to book later.